Cruise was so incensed by the episode that he allegedly threatened to not participate in promotion for "Mission: Impossible III" junket if a re-run of the episode was aired; Viacom owns both Comedy Central and Paramount, the studio that put out the film.

As it became clear that the problems of the banks would take years rather than months to solve, the ECB has had to devote more attention to making sure that no major European bank collapsed, triggering a re-run of the post-Lehman mayhem in 2008.